~ ~ JTR Favorite Sayings ~ ~
Switching
from one compulsion
to another is like switching seats
on theTitanic.
Only God can turn a mess
into a message.
We aren't
bad people trying to get good.
We're sick people trying to get well.
The disease
is progressive.
So is recovery.
You don't
have a problem.
You have a solution you don't like.
If you
want what the winners have,
do what the winners do.
If you
feel like taking something to feel better,
take one of the Steps.
I was
living in the pollution
instead of the solution.
It was
one of those meetings
where they carry the mess instead
of the message.
I traded
a lot of pain, fear, and despair
for my seat in Overeaters Anonymous.
If you're
not doing enough for OA,
you're not doing enough for yourself.
My life
is none of my business.
I just show up every morning
and report for duty.
If you're
working your own program properly,
you won't have time to work someone else's!!
My
relationship isn't my problem ~ ~
and it isn't my solution.
I'd better
be careful when I say I'm grateful.
Gratitude can Only be expressed in deeds, not words.
If you
want to see how grateful someone is, ask them to help you.
Some folks think God sets up the chairs and cleans up after the
meeting.
We get
a *daily* reprieve,
based on what we do *today*
for our recovery.
We earn today's abstinence today.
We can't stay abstinent on meetings we
attended last year,
12th Step calls we did last year,
Steps we worked last year.
We cannot keep what we have
based on what we
gave away last year.
OA didn't
tell me what would happen
if I kept eating compulsively so much
as it told me what would happen if I stayed abstinent.
There's
no problem that cannot become a crisis
and no crisis that cannot
become a disaster -- if I eat to try to escape it.
I was
sick and tired
of the high cost
of low living.
If you'd
rather die than go to OA,
you probably will.
Food never
really made me happy ~
but it made me think I was going to BE
happy in about 15 minutes.
Once I
admit that I
cannot manage my own life (Step One),
I relinquish the
right to try to manage someone else's.
A smooth
sea never made a good sailer.
God loves
me where I'm at,
but "he" loves me too much
to leave me there.
OA meetings
are an archipeligo of sanity
in a lunatic sea.
I've been
driven to a good attitude by being hit over the head by
self-will.
You can
complain about the same problem three times.
Then you'd better be in the solution.
If you have to talk to more than three people
about the same problem,
you don't want help,
you want attention.
If you're
too busy to go to OA meetings,
you're busier than God wants you to be.
We have
to change completely
when we get abstinent.
The me who ate compulsively
will eat compulsively again.
I get
lots of messages from God,
but most are in my own handwriting.
The reason
I don't say "no"
when asked to do something for OA is
that invariably I'm being asked to do something that might save my life.
If I say"no" often enough, they'll stop asking.
He gave
his almost.
I came
to OA not only to start living,
but to quit dying.
Gratitude
is the hinge
upon which an abstinent life swings.
If I'm
truly grateful
for today's abstinence,
I'm making a down payment
on tomorrow's.
I don't
have relationships ~
I have Close Encounters.
Not everything
that is supposedly "normal"
is appealing to me.
I'd rather be stung by wasps
than play golf!!
Instead
of praying
"God be with me,"
I pray "God bear with me!"
od doesn't
close one door
without opening a better one.
God doesn't
close one door
without opening a better one ~ ~
BUT ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
we've got to get our fingers
out of the closing door. The reason you're in
pain is because you have your fingers
in a door God is trying to close.
When in
doubt -- don't.
I ate
because I was depressed.
I ate because I was happy.
But mostly I ate because I was awake.
I was
pole vaulting over mouse turds.
If you
don't want to follow time-honored guidance, you're welcome
to shop around for an opinion.
You break
bad habits
by breaking bad habits.
You form good habits by
forming good habits.
Just going
to meetings
without working the Steps
is untreated compulsion.
When you
smile,
your brain thinks you're happy!!
We'd be
suprised
what people think of us
if we knew how seldom
they do!!
If you're
going to pray,
don't worry.
If you're going to worry,
don't pray.
PAIN:
The effort required to cling
to old ideas and old behaviors.
The only
way you could possibly
get more ready to take the Fourth Step is
to keep eating compulsively.
An unwillingness to take Step Four
is a direct desire to eat again.
Don't
place a question mark
where God has placed a period.
There
are two kinds of people in OA ~ ~
those seeking the truth ~ ~
and those afraid of it
If you
don't take a chance,
you don't have one.
Hatred
destroys the hater.
If you
like everyone in OA,
you're not going to enough
meetings!! :)
I may
not be responsible
for being a compulsive overeater,
but I *am* responsible for my recovery.
Stop watering
the weeds!!
It's really
hard for God to guide you
if you keep running out ahead of him!!
How about
letting three people off the hook today?
Anger
may identify a problem,
but it will never solve one.
Gossip
and criticism
do not belittle the other person;
they belittle me.
Sometimes
we don't get what we want.
Sometimes we don't get what we need.
Sometimes we get what we get.
I was
always comparing my insides
to someone else's outsides.
A person
singing her own praises
is usually singing solo -- and out of tune.
Luck is
living under correct knowledge.
I was
giving permanent reality
to temporary things.
I need
to stick with the winners,
not with people who co-sign my bullshit.
Any day
above ground is a good day.
The MIRACLE
happens when we get abstinent.
The MAGIC happens when we apply
the principles to all our affairs.
Letting
go of others
will lift my own spirit high today."
The Recovery Group